You just said "people doing X, whatever that means" which strongly suggests that (at the time of writing) you either didn't know or care what X (in this case "dark patterns") means.
And which is about as funny as this other snippet you just wrote:
"Math plays no role in them beyond being able to understand an A/B test (i.e. to be able to understand math)"
Anyway the commenter's point wasn't that writing software with dark patterns requires super-heavy math (or even a math degree specifically). But how ironic it is that people with (sometimes highly prestigious) STEM degrees -- and who are in fact objectively quite smart otherwise, sometimes almost intimidatingly so -- end up at allegedly prestigious companies that we don't need to name doing ... basically mindless and socially harmful work like this.
And which is about as funny as this other snippet you just wrote:
"Math plays no role in them beyond being able to understand an A/B test (i.e. to be able to understand math)"
Anyway the commenter's point wasn't that writing software with dark patterns requires super-heavy math (or even a math degree specifically). But how ironic it is that people with (sometimes highly prestigious) STEM degrees -- and who are in fact objectively quite smart otherwise, sometimes almost intimidatingly so -- end up at allegedly prestigious companies that we don't need to name doing ... basically mindless and socially harmful work like this.
And getting paid quite handsomely for it.